Dunnart



Ellis Troughton describió la especie Sminthopsis granulipes en 1932 luego de que un espécimen del Museo Australiano de Sydney Troughton encontró notable que el espécimen había estado en la colección del museo por varias décadas sin haber sido reconocido como una especie separada anteriormente. Sin embargo, probablemente no estaba al tanto de que la especie había sido probablemente descrita usando el mismo espécimen antes. Gerard Krefft ya había preparado una descripción inicial en 1872 bajo el nombre de Podabrus albicaudata y la publicó en el importante semanario The Sydney Mail y New South Wales Advertiser, que aparecía los sábados

Ellis Troughton first described the species Sminthopsis granulipes in 1932 after a museum specimen from the Australian Museum in Sydney Troughton found it remarkable that the specimen had been in the museum's collection for several decades without having been recognized as a separate species earlier. However, he was probably not aware that the species had probably been described using the same specimen before. Gerard Krefft had already prepared an initial description in 1872 under the name Podabrus albicaudata and published it in the major weekly newspaper The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, which appeared on Saturdays. The genus name Podabrus, proposed by John Gould in 1845 for the narrow-footed marsupials, was replaced by the name Sminthopsis by O. Thomas in 1887, since a species of beetle already existed under the name Podabrus. During the new combination of scientific names the species Podabrus albicaudata was overlooked. After the rediscovery of the museum specimen by Troughton it was correctly reassigned to the narrow-footed marsupials under the new name Sminthopsis, but was given the species name granulipes, which refers to the nature of the skin on the feet and not to the white hair on the tail, which had caused Krefft to name it albicaudata. The double initial description of this narrow-footed marsupial was not clarified until 2015, after Australian scientists had re-registered the type specimens of mammals in the Australian Museum. Although Krefft's description came to public attention 60 years earlier than that of Troughton, his name Sminthopsis granulipes remains valid as a nomen protectum according to the ICZN, because only this name appeared in scientific publications in the following decades. This is to ensure the stability of the nomenclature and the continuity of the research work on this marsupial.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-dunnarts-wildlife-cockatoo-animal-deaths-kangaroo-island-a9270966.html

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Taxonomic status of Podabrus albocaudatus Krefft, 1872 and declaration of Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, 1932 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) as a protected name for the White-tailed Dunnart from Western Australia